Lisa Ray Instagram – I contributed my perspective on moving to #Singapore in a time of contagion for the #QuarantineDiaries in @livemintlounge You can read it by clicking the link in bio, but here’s a little taster too: . The fact that we have made a home in Singapore for our family in a time of crisis is strangely reassuring; once you have weathered the tough times, the good times will be exultant, you imagine. I believe we need to make an effort to tell different stories about difficult times, about the indirect, positive consequences of disaster on the human spirit lest we forget the “reasonableness of hope”. Now that all our houses are burning, what do you carry when you flee to safer ground? “Ultimately it is upon your vulnerability that you depend,” the poet Rilke writes. “For the time that we are here, we are dependent on the web of life.” There is no chance for evasions any more. We need each other, we need to look after each other, we must infect each other with fortifying emotions. At the time of writing this, India is enforcing an unprecedented, countrywide, 21-day stay-at-home order and Singapore is introducing more precautionary measures, like shutting down entertainment venues.